November 2009
1 post
#DIGC101 Second Reflection Essay
How important is self presentation in Social Networking Sites?
The creation of my web project incorporated creating an online persona through a Social Networking Site. They way I chose to present myself offered up some characteristics that are uniquely found only in these Social Networking Sites. Through presentation I was able construct a completely fiction identity, piecing together all the...
October 2009
4 posts
#DIGC102 Week 10
IRAC Interviews:
The Fake Steve Fielding,
Each set of questions were diuble barrell and allow the interviewee to manipulate the way the interview went, as he could pick and choose the part of the questions he wanted to answer. This isnt very good when considering you may not gain the information you actually want to extracte form the subject. He managed to use this to his adavntages as well by...
#DIGC101 Our Youtube Clips.
Acadmeic Intergrity Videoes.
Personally my winner: Food for Thought
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgTG6PYSTUY&feature=PlayList&p=4654E7281F30605C
Visually I loved the Silent Film theme, it was very clever and diffenerent for ther others.
I like the witty line “Plagiarism is like stealing the words right out of someone else’s mouth”! It was very well put together and...
#DIGC101 Reflection Essay
On my online project one of the aspects I really wanted to incorperate was a sort of platform I wanted users to be able to paticiapte on. I have found that people feel more comfortabel relating visually with my personas blog post rather than the textual content. So I want my Reflection Essay to look at the power of visual images in online communities. I dont have a specific question, but I wanted...
DIGC101- Week 9 Flickr
The theme of my Flickr image search was artistic images of cycling or people bike riding. I wanted to keep it within the pop culture theme of my project.
Okay so the tags I used to search for these types of images were as follows: *fashion bike, *bike, *cycling, *riding. I found tags to be way more effective than just name searches, because it gave me more options of the types of images I was...
September 2009
5 posts
#DIGC102 - Industry Analysis Report
How have Online Social Networking Sites managed to establish themselves as billion or million dollar industries, whilst offering free products and services to consumers?
The Internets new Web 2.0 format has allowed for the cultural dominance of Social Networking Sites in today’s society. A Social Networking Sites ability to rely on the new participatory culture of web participator’s has seen the...
#digc101 Project Update.
Just finished my second lot of blog postings for my online personality.
Check it out if you wish www.myspace.com/k8e_n
#DIGC101 Week Seven- Google Sites
Ah google sites! Your the missing link that my web project needed all along. I was toying with way to allow my users to be updated with content cahnges to my personas blog (Myspace doesn’t have RSS feed) and this maybe my way how!!
I am going to us my site, as a form of double blog space. One side shall show links back to this tumblr space to redirct to my class and exercise blogs and...
#DIGC102- Presentation.
Research Area
- which industry
Online Social Networking Sites
- Important
Online Social Networking Sites have managed to revolutionize communication in the 21th century to become almost dominant forms of media themselves rather than just simple websites of the Internet. The Internets ability to provide sub-categories of communication (SNS being one form (P2P), email, file transfer, instant...
#DIGC101 - Week Six Post
Within my groups current production of our Plagarism themed YouTube clip, I have one of the role that requires me to submitt content. As we have chosen to do animation, majority of the group is sending in our own photoshopped crafted pictures, for digital animation.
Currently I am constructing three images in the photoshop software to be collaborated with my other group members works.
This task...
August 2009
17 posts
DIGC102- Ethics in an Industry. WK6
I have choosen to focus on the Australian TV Industry.
The Astra Code of Ethics
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia- Policy
Free to air TV- Ethics in Broadcasting
#DIGC101 Reflection Essay
Using and Experiencing the Web as a communication Form
Forms of new media communications and technologies have allowed for advances in various areas of peoples lifestyles today. The ways in which computer mediated communication has developed has allowed for society to create all new types of ways to carry out tasks and form new ideas. Digital Communications: New Media Communications has allowed...
#DIGC101 Week 5 My Social Networking Usage
I began my obsession with social networking sities back in 2007 with Myspace. I never used the previous internet chats like MSN, because I liked personal inetraction better. I tried to be cool and not conform to joining MSN by contacting my friends with the good old fashion phone. It wasn’t till I saw my sister register for myspace that my interests in SNS’s began. Of coarse I paid her...
DIGC102 Information Search Assignment Report
How is the Australian Cinema Industry handling movie piracy and illegal downloading?
Due to new illegal adaptations and ways of watching films, The Australian Cinema Industry is having to combat these illicit activities to insure that their revenue doesn’t continue to fall. The Industry is heavily reliant upon the functioning of small businesses as well as the large movie theater chains....
#DIGC101 RSS Feeds.
http://www.frankie.com.au/index.php?format=feed&type=rss
http://feeds.feedburner.com/yen-online
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElleTellAllFashionDesignAndStyleFromEllecom
http://nylonmag.com/nylonblogs/feed/
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/22074720.rss
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23digc101
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ItsMossipBitch
http://www.ozmusicscene.com/feed/
...
#DIGC101 identity update.
After several labouring hours on my computer I have finally established my site. Check it out on www.myspace.com/k8e_n
So far the visual layout is experimental. I’m looking at adding and taking away things as I go, but the content is pretty much what I was aiming for. I have uploaded three different stories/ disscussion qusetions on my page to kick start the inetaction.
However, Im still...
Working on My Identity #DIGC101
For inspiration I just googled myself.
Several hits suprisingly for ‘Kate Nealon’, the top hit coming from Forbes.com profile (if only this was really me!!).
Other hits with in the frist page include:
- MY Twitter
- MY myspace
- and MY facebook
This has opened my eyes a bit to the accessablitity of my site. facebook is set on private as it is my main socail platfrom, but myspace...
DIGC102. Googlestalking.
Week Three Task.
Nacny Baym
After just typing her name into the google search engine I have gain over 21,000 hits. I have establihed that the Nancy Baym I was directed towards reseraching is an Associate Professor of Communication Studes at the University of Kanas. The first four results from my research gives me: 1) Her homepage with the Uni- describing her research 2) Her online blog page-...
#DIGC102 Sources Harvard Style.
Bain, D. 2005. WA’s Cinema Industry in Crisis- Transcript, Stateline WA. (accessed 06/08/09). http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/wa/content/2005/s1448230.htm
enigma. 2009. Anti-Piracy Groups Target Australia’s Children. (accessed 06/08/09).http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groups-target-australias-children-090602/
Village Cinema. Anti-Piracy. (accessed...
DIGC101: Identity
So far in my quest for a internet identity I have have establish some starting pionts.
Because I want my site to have a strong visual appeal, I think Myspace is the best platform for me to produce from. All the help-guide sites that show you the text code’s for things like backgrounds and text colour and font are really helpful, considering I am slightly in the dark.
In adding to the...
DIGC102: Searching for Sources
1) Industry: Cinema
2) Research Question: How is the Australian film industry dealing with movie piracy and internet downloading?
3) Keywords:
- cinema
- industry
- movie
- piracy
- internet
- download*
- Australia*
- motion picture
- film
- revenue
4) Sources:
- “WA Cinema Industry in Crisis” http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/wa/content/2005/s1448230.htm
- Blog,...
Inspirations.
Im thinking that I may just stick with myspace.
The design possiblities are better than other sites and one asspect I’m looking for is visual appeal!
Confusion.
Just had an influx of ideas all popping into my head at once.
Muiltiple window openings are also adding to my confuesd state.
digc101. My Identity.
WOW, the return of myspace.
I had though by moving into my adulthood, advancing from myspace to facebook was just a rite of passage. Coming back makes me look at all the tweenies with flashing photos waiting for me to deny their friend requests.
Anyway I think Myspace is the best platform for me to create a new persona, considering the real me doesn’t really use it much. I still wish to be...
Demo Posting.
demo blog post for 102.
Kate.
July 2009
1 post
